Random Random Chat Thread XL

[Wahooti Fandango]

Going to go the informal vote for the fed eelction this year. Poltics shits me too much. Need to decide what to write on the ballot papers now. Might go with, "U MAD?"

 

[Doss]

I live in basically the safest Labor seat in the country, so who I vote for is irrelevant at the end of the day.

If you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose one of the two major parties, it'd be Labor, because I really, really can't stand Abbott.

I think I might go the informal too. I'm thinking of doodling a giant troll face over the ballot paper.

 

[Burzum]

i'm just going to vote shooters & fishers

 

[Doss]

i'm votin 4 da communists

 

[Doss]

Actually scrap that, sex party all the way.

 

[Burzum]

that sounds like some hippy shit

 

[Doss]

My bike has no breaks and has a wicker basket.

I also live in a commune and grow my own activated almonds.

 

[Doss]

And like, mang, I'm also so hip I can't even differentiate between 'breaks' and 'brakes'.

coz im just baked 24/7

 

[eth-dog]

I live in basically the safest Labor seat in the country, so who I vote for is irrelevant at the end of the day.

If you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose one of the two major parties, it'd be Labor, because I really, really can't stand Abbott.

I think I might go the informal too. I'm thinking of doodling a giant troll face over the ballot paper.

I live in the safest Liberal seat in the country so that's my vote useless as well.

VOTE GREENS PEOPLE

 

[Doss]

I live in the safest Liberal seat in the country so that's my vote useless as well.

VOTE GREENS PEOPLE

Kooyong, yeah?

 

[eth-dog]

Kooyong, yeah?

Nah, Higgins. The two are next door to each other though and are both guaranteed Liberal wins

 

[Burzum]

I live in the safest Liberal seat in the country so that's my vote useless as well.

VOTE GREENS PEOPLE

no thanks jeff

 

[Doss]

Nah, Higgins. The two are next door to each other though and are both guaranteed Liberal wins

Ah, always thought it was Kooyong. Maybe it was at one point and then it changed.

Talking of elections and the like, check out this pearler:



Was from a campaign letter sent out to residents by one of the local candidates in my missus' local council area, prior to local elections last year. Wonder how many votes that poor chap got.

 

[eth-dog]

no thanks jeff

You're dead to me

Ah, always thought it was Kooyong. Maybe it was at one point and then it changed.

Talking of elections and the like, check out this pearler:

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Was from a campaign letter sent out to residents by one of the local candidates in my missus' local council area, prior to local elections last year. Wonder how many votes that poor chap got.

It's semantics really. Neither will go to anyone other than someone from the Liberal party for a very long time

 

[Burzum]

you'll grow out of your greens stage

 

[zackah]

I have no idea why people think voting for the minor parties is the answer (or not voting). Sure if you understand and agree with their policies, by all means vote for them. But don't just assume that they are better than the two major parties purely by the fact they are not one (remember the Democrats anyone?).

Having had quite a bit to do with the inner runnings of politics I fully understand that democracy elects people - left/right/centre, party affiliated/non party affiliated that are effective and non effective. At the end of the day vote for the party that you feel is best fit to govern and has policies that you support. And please UNDERSTAND their policies before assuming things.

As Reagan once said (which may or may not give away my political persuasion )
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"

/rant.

 

[zackah]

Ronald Reagan? The actor?

Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?

Reagan was just ahead of his time. Actor, California Governor, President.

Arnie is trying his hardest to follow suit (less the whole adultery/illegitimate child thing)

 

[Burzum]

Ronald Reagan? The actor?

Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?

Is that the guy from My Kitchen Rules?

 

[zackah]

For the record I just wanted to quote Back to the Future.

Ah, missed that

 

[Burzum]

That went over my head.

How embarrassing.

 

[The Speaker]

I have no idea why people think voting for the minor parties is the answer (or not voting). Sure if you understand and agree with their policies, by all means vote for them. But don't just assume that they are better than the two major parties purely by the fact they are not one (remember the Democrats anyone?).

Having had quite a bit to do with the inner runnings of politics I fully understand that democracy elects people - left/right/centre, party affiliated/non party affiliated that are effective and non effective. At the end of the day vote for the party that you feel is best fit to govern and has policies that you support. And please UNDERSTAND their policies before assuming things.

As Reagan once said (which may or may not give away my political persuasion )
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"

/rant.

Actually, two of our most significant minor parties could've been very important had they stayed on and grown in strength - the DLP and the Democrats. They filled the two quarters of the political spectrum that neither the Liberal nor Labor Party covers (under a four point model, not the usual overly-simplistic left-right model),

As it was they ended up serving as moving points for groups of voters to move from one major party to the other - social conservatives of a socialist economic bent moved to the Liberal Party via the DLP (mostly Catholics, like Abbott), and small-l liberals moved from the Liberal Party to the ALP via the Democrats. Not all of the people in those groups migrated, but many of them did.

 

[Beerfish]

Sorry I brought it up tbh.

What were we talking about before this?

Oh..

So how bout dem catholics huh?

 

[Doss]

caflics? pfft.

i wrote jedi on the last census. coz like, im ironic and alternative and hip and stufffff.

 

[Beerfish]

Wahooti Fandango

 

[eth-dog]

when somebody is on your ignore list and they don't even realize it. (KA, srobbo, mufassa)